Professor Marja Aartsen

Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, OsloMet, Norway

Fields of interest

Social issues related to aging in place and active or successful ageing

Current position

Marja Aartsen, PhD, works as research professor at NOVA Norwegian Social research at Oslo Metropolitan University. She is a sociologist and specialized in longitudinal research on social relations, social exclusion, loneliness, and cognitive functioning in the second half of life. She is interested in social issues related to aging in place and active or successful ageing. She served as one of the Editors-in-Chief of the European Journal of Ageing until the summer 2022.

Title of keynote speech: Social exclusion in later life: on life course predictors, drivers and outcomes.

Education

2003 – Ph.D Social Gerontology, VU University Amsterdam
Thesis: On the interrelation between social activities and cognitive functioning in older age (defense October 2003), Supervision: Prof. C.P.M. Knipscheer, prof. T.G. van Tilburg and Dr. C.H.M. Smits

Research Project

Active aging: Pathways and outcomes
Explaining health inequalities in an ageing population: Social pathways and linked lives

Publications

Selected Articles in refereed journals

Le, Giang Huong; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Understanding volunteering intensity in older volunteers. Ageing & Society.

Pavlidis, George; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Exclusion from social relations in later life: on the gendered associations of social networks with mental wellbeing. Aging & Mental Health.

Veenstra, Marijke; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Life-course income trajectories of men and women in Norway: Implications for self-rated health in later life. European Journal of Public Health. Vol. 32.

Pavlidis, George; Hansen, Thomas; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Network and solitude satisfaction as modifiers of disadvantages in the quality of life of older persons who are challenged by exclusion from social relations: a gender stratified analysis. Applied Research in Quality of Life. Vol. 17.

Orsholits, Dan; Cullati, Stéphane; Ghisletta, Paolo; Aartsen, Marja; Oris, Michel; Studer, Matthias; Maurer, Jürgen; Perna, Laura; Gouveia, Élvio; Marques, Adilson; Peralta, Miguel; Marconcin, Priscila; Kliegel, Matthias; Ihle, Andreas (2022). How Welfare Regimes Moderate the Associations Between Cognitive Aging, Education, and Occupation. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. Vol. 77.

Hansen, Thomas; Kafková, Marcela Petrová; Katz, Ruth; Lowenstein, Ariela; Naim, Sigal; Pavlidis, George; Villar, Feliciano; Walsh, Kieran; Aartsen, Marja (2021). Exclusion from social relations in later life: Micro-and macro-level patterns and correlations in a european perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). Vol. 18.
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Rapoliene, Grazina; Aartsen, Marja (2021). Lonely societies: low trust societies? Further explanations for national variations in loneliness among older Europeans. European Journal of Ageing.

Aartsen, Marja; Walsh, Kieran; Villar, Feliciano; Lowenstein, Ariela; Katz, Ruth; Naim, Sigal; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Wanka, Anna; Urbaniak, Anna Maria; Hansen, Thomas; Vidovićová, Lucie (2021). Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life and the Role of Gender: A Heuristic Model. Gender a výzkum. Vol. 22.

Waldegrave, Charles; Aartsen, Marja; Lowenstein, Ariela; Sepannen, Marjaana; Niemi, M; Melchiorre, G; Lamura, Giovanni (2021). Conflicting relations, abuse and discrimination experienced by older adults. Walsh, Kieran; Scharf, Thomas; Van Regenmortel, Sofie; Wanka, Anna (Ed.). Social exclusion in later life. Interdisciplinary and policy perspectives. Chapter 9. p. 119-132. Springer.

Morgan, Deborah; Dahlberg, Lena; Waldegrave, Charles; Mikulionienė, Sarmitė; Rapoliene, Grazina; Lamura, Giovanni; Aartsen, Marja (2021). Revisiting loneliness: Individual and country-level changes. Walsh, Kieran; Scharf, Thomas; Van Regenmortel, Sofie; Wanka, Anna (Ed.). Social exclusion in later life. Interdisciplinary and policy perspectives. Chapter 8. p. 99-117. Springer.